Podcast: Olympics and Wrestling Need Innovation

Wrestling fans are hoping that the sport can leapfrog over other excluded Olympic sports.

Wrestling has been cut from the Olympics for 2020. While the three-man weave admits that we haven’t paid much attention to the amateur version of the sport (pro wrestling is another matter), the news was still a bit sad for some of us. Darren Everson said with the exception of Olympic hockey, he doesn’t have much use for any of the other sports in the Games. Geoff Foster is looking forward to Olympic golf in 2016, while I propose an innovative solution to the Olympic sports overload: divide the “artistic” and clear-cut winner sports up into two different Olympics.

After the halftime break, college-basketball expert Ben Cohen joins us to discuss last night’s Duke-North Carolina game. We offer a prediction for the No. 1 seeds in the tournament and also introduce a college-basketball gambling theory. Hint: Take unranked home favorites against ranked teams.

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